I was a primary author on two papers with Professor Jiasun Li, with a third still in progress.
Working with a team of three, I helped produce a comprehensive report and analysis of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and how they have grown over the past few years, what's behind the surge, and where it may be heading.
A closer study of the distribution and valuation of current cryptocurrency exchanges, their potential yields, their safety over time, and the percent chance of financial instability and shutdown.
I'm now building an index of safety designed to describe and score any and all cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide, distilling the previous analysis into a single, comparable measure.
I worked closely with Professor Jiasun Li and a small research team out of Fairfax, Virginia, learning to take a question from raw data all the way to a written, defensible result. The finance topics were new territory for me, which was the point. The transferable skill is the research process itself: framing a question, gathering and cleaning data, and communicating findings clearly.
That same research instinct shows up across my hardware work, too, from characterizing optical tweezers to collecting performance data on Project O-Seal.